Art 115: African Art

Slide List Exam #4

 

10 images will appear on the exam. You will be asked to identify the artist (if known), period/style, region, medium, and location (for architecture only), and then answer a question based on information discussed in lecture or in the textbook.

 

CHAPTER 10: CROSS RIVER, CAMEROON GRASSLANDS, AND GABON

 

1.       Crest Mask, Ejagham, Cross River Communities, Nigeria, wood, stained animal skin, basketry, fig. 10-8.

 

2.       Throne and footstool of Nsangu, King of Bamum, Cameroon, 1870, wood, textile, glass, cowrie shells, fig. 10-12.

 

3.       Nlo Bieri figure, Fang, (Okak), 19-20th century wood and metal, fig. 10-31 (compare to figure 10-30)

 

4.       Mbulu-Ngulu (Reliquary figure), Kota, wood, brass, copper, fig. 10-33.

 

CHAPTER 11: THE WESTERN CONGO REGION

 

5.       Nkondi figure, Lower Congo, 1878, wood, rope, metal, fig. 11-1.

 

6.       Nduda figure, Lower Congo, 1893, wood, glass, leather, feathers, cloth. Fig. 11-18.

 

7.       King Kot a Mbweeky III in state dress, Kuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1971, fig. 11-52.

 

8.       Ngady a Mwash mask, Kuba, pre-1917, wood, raffia, shells, fig. 11-64.

 

CHAPTER 12: THE EASTERN CONGO BASIN

 

9.       Buli Master, Stool, Luba,  Congo, 19th century wood, metal, fig. 12-6.

 

10.  Lukasa (Initiation emblem), Luba, Congo, late 19th-20th century, wood, beads, fig. 12-9.

 

11.  Mangbetu woman, OkondoŐs Village, Mangbetu, Congo, 1910, fig. 12-32.

 

PART IV EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

CHAPTER 13: EASTERN AFRICA

 

12.  Man sounding a Siwa (side blowing horn), Swahili, Pate Island, Kenya, 17th century, brass, fig. 13-6.

 

13.  Jumba (Stone house) showing Zidaka (storage niches), Swahili, Limu, Kenya, 18th-19th centuries, coral limestone lime plaster, fig. 13-9.

 

14.  Vigango (Kingango), Kenya, 1981, fig.

 

CHAPTER 14: Southern Africa

 

15.  Three Figures, Coldstream Cave, 2,000 b.c.e., South African, pigment on stone, fig. 14-3.

 

16.  Dancing Figures, Drakensberg Mountains, South African, pigment on rock, fig. 14-9.

 

17.  Lydenberg Head, South African, 500 ad, terracotta, fig. 14-11.

 

18.  Exterior of Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe, Shona, Zimbabwe, 1350-1450, fig. 14-15 (see 14-16, 14-17, 4-18).

 

19.  Married woman with shawl, Zulu, beads, cloth, fig. 14-33.

 

20.  Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Desperate Man, 1988, Shona, black serpentine, fig. 14-45.

21.  Goncalo Mabunda, Rest (Chair Made of Recycled Automatic Weapons), 2003, metal, South African, fig. 14-47.

 

22.  Willie Bester, Semekazi (Migrant Miseries), South African, oil, enamel paint, mixed media, fig. 14-50.

23.  Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, 1985-6, South African, mixed media, fig. 14-55.

24.  Berni Searle, Still (Detail), 2001, South African, prints on backlit paper, fig. 14-56.

 

25.  Suzanne Ouedraogo, Excision I, 2003, Burkina Faso, oil on canvas (see powerpoint)

 

CHAPTERS 15: AFRICAN ARTISTS ABROAD (NOTE STYLES RATHER THAN GROUP)

 

26.  Skunder Boghossian, The Night Flight of Dread and Delight, Ethiopian/American, Surrealism, oil on canvas, fig. 15-7.

 

27.  Watts/Ouattara, Nok Culture, 1993, Postmodern, acrylic and mixed media on wood, fig. 15-12.

 

28.  Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Bronze Head, 1987, Postmodern, photograph, fig. 15-14.

 

29.  Angele Etoundi Essamba, Le Fil Conducteur 1, Postmodern, photograph, fig. 15-16.

 

SELECTED IMAGES FROM THROUGHOUT THE TEXTBOOK

 

30.  Farid Belkahia, Hand, Morocco, 1980, dyes on treated cattle hyde and wood, fig. 1-33.

 

31.  Gazbia Sirry, Martyr, Egyptian, 1961, oil on canvas, fig. 2-39.

 

32.  Osman Waqialla, Opening on the Surat Ya Sin, Chapter 36, Sudanese, 1982, fig. 2-41.

 

33.  Frederic Bruly Bouabre, Untitled, (Knowledge of the world series), 1991, Ivory Coast, colored pencil and ball point on cardboard, fig. 6-44.

 

34.  Kofi Setordji, Rwanda Genocide (detail), Ghana, 1994-99, fig. 7-44.

 

FEATURED ARTISTS FROM WIKIW

 

35.  Gabriel Eklou, Sharing a Secret, Expressionist, n.d. (see powerpoint).

 

36.  Edosa Oglugo, Merry Hearts, 2013/14, Contemporary African Art, (see powerpoint)

 

37.  Amani Bodo, Cigarette, 2008, Contemporary African Art, (see powerpoint).

 

38.  Samuel Fosso, The Chief, 1997, Postmodern, (see powerpoint).

 

39.  Wangechi Mutu, The Bride who married a CamelŐs Head, Contemporary African Art, 2009, (see powerpoint)